10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic.

Falcons 171

Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up. The grand old bird became a surrogate mother, and raised them herself. And to prove it, there’s The Queen.

Rabbits 230

Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 230

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service. On the short list of wins for wildlife during the Bush II era, Short-tailed Albatross were officially listed as Endangered in 2000. North American Peregrine Falcons have also enjoyed an impressive population rebound in recent years. Brown Pelicans are not an unusual sight on the California coast.

Albatross 198

Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 198